by Mounir al-Manawri | Feb 7, 2017 | World
Washington- One of the certain failures of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is that it waited seven years after the Iran-Iraq war sparked to ask the analysts and experts in Iraqi and Iranian affairs a simple question: who started the war? CIA analysts prepared a...
by Amir Taheri | Mar 15, 2013 | Opinion
Almost a decade ago a four letter word divided political opinion across the board. The word was “Iraq” whose regime had acted as a rogue state since the late 1960s. The debate that caused the division achieved new intensity when a “coalition of the willing” led by the...
by Samir Atallah | Mar 9, 2013 | Opinion
A decade has passed since the huge American mistake that saw then President George W. Bush shooting himself in the foot. The difference between this president and his father, George Bush Senior, is that the latter brought together a coalition of 33 different...